What does New Growth do? We put it in a calendar!
What does New Growth do? We put it all in a calendar!
Request your free copy—while supplies last!
This year’s calendar highlights businesses and volunteer drivers from communities across our region— Bolivar, Butler, Clinton,Collins, Nevada, Rich Hill, Stockton, and Warsaw. You might see someone you know!
What’s Inside the 2026 New Growth Calendar
The pages of this calendar offer more than examples of New Growth services. Each story is about transformation,about how New Growth pulls people, resources, and partners together to build rural opportunity. Each person featured has taken part in a New Growth program.They have found new ways to grow their businesses, reach their goals, and strengthen their communities. Their success reflects the spirit of rural west central Missouri—where determination, connection, and opportunity come together to create lasting change.
Our name New Growth reflects our belief that rural communities already hold the seeds of their own success—talented people, rich culture, beautiful landscapes, and creative communities. From these deep rural roots, we’re cultivating new growth by connecting people and resources that too often remain scattered or isolated.When we work together, those individual efforts become collective strength.That’s why we value our partners and collaborate with communities and organizations across west central Missouri and beyond to turn shared challenges into shared opportunity.
New Growth programs fill gaps,clear bottlenecks, and attract investment by pulling people, organizations, and resources together.
• New Growth Women’s Business Center fills a critical gap in business coaching for entrepreneurs. In partnership with business-supporting organizations across the region, we ensure no entrepreneur is left behind, including efforts to address barriers like access to child care.
• New Growth Capital supports access to capital through credit-score building and microlending for small business financing under $50,000, helping create bankable borrowers for our local bank partners to work with as those businesses establish and grow.
• New Growth Food Systems supports small farmers and food entrepreneurs working to meet the growing demand for tasty, healthy, local food. We partner across Missouri and several states to provide training, mentorship, and business support— while also encouraging the development of needed business services, such as local food distribution, which helps producers access markets for their produce and products, strengthening local businesses and the local food supply.
• New Growth Transit is growing and succeeding because its volunteer driver network meets the needs of both the people who need rides and the organizations that depend on them getting there—healthcare providers, employers, food centers, and more—while giving volunteer drivers a way to connect with others and make a difference in their own communities.
We’re happy to send a calendar to anyone—completely free of charge! It’s our way of celebrating the brave business owners growing jobs in our region and the generous volunteer drivers who give their time to help a neighbor.
Inspiration All Year Long